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Which patients will respond to ECT?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Lakshmi N. Yatham ,
Siobhan Barry ,
Timothy G. Dinan  and
Marcus Webb
Lakshmi N. Yatham
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, St James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
Siobhan Barry
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, St James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
Timothy G. Dinan
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, St James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
Marcus Webb
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, St James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 154 , Issue 6 , June 1989 , pp. 879
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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